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Strategy and Leadership in VUCA World (Batch 12)

Programme Dates
Start Date: 04 January 2027
End Date: 06 January 2027

Venue
IIMB Campus

 Registration Deadlines
Early Bird Deadline: 14 Dec 2026
Last Date for Registration: 25 Dec 2026		 Programme Fee
(Residential)
Early Bird Fee: ₹1,13,850 + GST
Regular Fee: ₹1,26,500 + GST		 Programme Fee
(Non-Residential)
Early Bird Fee: ₹99,000 + GST
Regular Fee: ₹1,10,000 + GST
* GST applicable at 18%

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Important Deadlines

Venue : IIMB Campus
Early Bird Discount Date : 14 December, 2026
Last date for registration: 25 December, 2026

 

About IIM Bangalore

Contact Us

Mr. Shashidhar
Mobile No. +91 7899991576
Email: shashidhara.cs@iimb.ac.in

Mode
In-Person
Starting In
Jan-Mar
Level
CXO, Senior Leaders
Duration
Short Duration
International Travel
No
Alumni Status
No

Programme Overview

Changing business environment, the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, and Complex & Ambiguous) world, and globalization are putting more challenges before business leaders than ever before. While in emerging markets, growth opportunities exist, the CEOs/CXOs, and other business leaders are constantly working on finding out more innovative ways to strengthen competitive edge and sustain it; in the face of ever-increasing stakeholder expectations.

The organizational complexities have been accentuated by change in demographics, customer profile, localization, and innovations with pressure on Sustainability with Innovation, Talent Management Frameworks, Verticalisation of Organizations, and fast pacing Technological Changes. Further, with complex and large organizations in the modern world, inter-connections of systems, geographies and products and services, Leadership has assumed a totally new set of contingencies. Hence, organizational strategies of leadership are receiving more attention from Top Management for using Empowerment and enriching and other critical Positive Psychology and Talent Management tools, e.g., Developmental Conversation and Executive Coaching.

This programme Strategy and Leadership in VUCA World is a programme for Top and Senior Executives to take a pause, reflect, review and develop a few strategies and personal action plans to have an edge

Programme Content:
• Defining organization of the future; culture and linking it to desired results
• Changing Organizational Canvas/Context: the VUCA World in Emerging economy
• Organizational Strategies and Frameworks for Competitive Advantage
• Leadership: the critical factor for Strategic Advantage; trends, best practices
• Desired leadership competencies, behaviours, and organization values
• Executive Coaching for prioritized development
• Talent Management: Changing paradigms and the role of Leaders and Senior executives
• Succession planning for critical roles and a pipeline for talent

Programme Objective

This Leadership Programme is an attempt to pause, reflect, review, appreciate, and sharpen some of the following:

  • To appreciate the changing business context: VUCA world, more so in the emerging markets of India
  • Review, recapitulate and recalibrate of strategies for competitive edge
  • To highlight various Interconnections between strategies and various sub-systems
  • To facilitate and appreciate one’s styles of leadership in changing times; the styles, strengths, enablers, derailers, competencies, and the gaps
  • Use of executive coaching for identification of planned/focused corrective actions for strengthening leadership**
  •  Sharing best practices in the Strategies and Leadership Edge area
    **Use of 360-degree for Coaching: Participants with 360 feedback leadership report can have one-on-one interaction with faculty during the programme.

Key benefits/takeaways

Pedagogy
• Workshop methodology
• Case Discussion/Exercises
• Strategy Simulations/Scenario Planning
• Best Practices Sharing
• Executive Coaching

Who should attend?

  • Candidates having 20+ years of work experience
  • Senior managers of organizations who are responsible to manage a business unit within an organization.
  • Senior executives and those in line management, responsible for the P&L of their vertical

Programme Director

 

Professor P D Jose teaches core courses on Competition and Strategy, Strategy and Public Policy and electives on Business and Sustainability; Learning from Corporate Failures; and Strategy through Simulations. He has held visiting faculty positions at Cardiff Business School, and the University of Gothenburg’s Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law.

Before joining IIMB, Jose was a faculty member at ASCI in Hyderabad. Jose’s consulting experience spans private, public, and international organizations. He has facilitated strategy workshops for several Indian and multinational companies.

 

 

Prof. Gopal Mahapatra
Professor Gopal Mahapatra, He has more than thirty years of corporate, consulting and academic experience in leading: Strategic HR, Organisational Transformation, Leadership Development, and Executive Coaching. He is a Doctorate (FPM) in Management from IIM, Bangalore & Post-Graduate in Personnel Management & IR from Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi. He is trained by London Business School in Strategic HR, and Total Quality by JUSE, Tokyo, in Coaching by Marshall Goldsmith and a Certified Executive Coach by BCC, ICF, Results Coaching and Ericson Coaching; also Future Search, PDI, Mercer, CEB and MBTI by Dr Linda Kirby, APT.

Programme Charges

Programme Fee
INR 1,26,500/- Residential and INR 1,10,000/- Non -Residential (+ Applicable GST) per person for participants from India and its equivalent in US Dollars for participants from other countries.

Early Bird Discount
Nominations received with payments on or before 14 December 2026 will be entitled to an early bird Discount of 10%.
Early Bird Fee (Residential) INR 1,13,850/-(+ Applicable GST)
Early Bird Fee (Non-Residential) INR 99,000/-(+ Applicable GST)

Group Discount
Group Discount of 5% percentage can be availed for a group of 3 or more participants when nominations received from the same organization.

Please Note

  • All enrolments are subject to review and approval by the programme director. Joining Instructions will be sent to the selected candidates 10 days prior the start of the programme.
  • The programme fee should be received by the Executive Education Office before the programme commencement date.
  • In case of cancellations, the fee will be refunded only if a request is received at least 15 days prior to the start of the programme.
  • If a nomination is not accepted,the fee will be refunded to the person/ organisation concerned.
  • A certificate of participation will be awarded to the participants by IIMB.

Participant Benefits

As a participant of this Short Duration Programme, you will be able to enjoy some exclusive benefits other than the outcomes such as skills and knowledge enhancement and building specific competencies that can help shape your career growth.

Some of the exclusive benefits of attending this programme are listed below –

  • Receive Executive Education eNewsletters
  • Invitation to share articles to the EEP blog (subject to a shortlisting process)
  • Participate in EEP webinars on various topics
  • Invitation to curated events and programs by the EEP office

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How To Apply for the Programme